Small in stature, big on personality and opinions. Underestimate Samantha Renke at your peril. For me, Samantha never disappoints. She’s across her brief and up to date with news and views. She moves me, makes me smile and is an outrageous flirt – shockingly so, but I like it and her a lot
Eamonn Holmes
I adore Samantha Renke and the important work she is doing for the disability community. I loved working with her on the Happy Place digital festival. She is a leading voice on inclusion and disability and continues to make a powerful impact in game changing ways.
Fearne Cotton
I have worked with Samantha for a few years. Samantha has delivered disability workshops for ViacomsCBS which she broke down the importance of disability inclusion. Samantha is a pleasure to work with!
Wincie Knight
I have worked with Samantha for the past two years. Samantha always makes herself available, accessible and articulate. Her warm hard-working personality makes it a pleasure to work with Samantha and I always look forward to being able to book her.
Johnny Seifert
Sam has done so much for us at ITV news – she’s practically part of the furniture. She’s reported for ITV News London (working alongside top producers), she’s been a guest judge to find the winner of our London ‘Pride of Britain’ competition, she’s been part of our successful ‘women in news’ drive and she’s always there to comment on a range of issues that we feature on the programme.
She’s hard-working, and a massive pleasure to work with. More than that – she leaves all the team with a massive smile on their faces and a sense of positivity. She’s a total gem and we’re always happy to have her on our show.
Hannah Emerson-Thomas
Samantha Renke is an engaging, authentic and inspiring speaker. She is able to relate to a wide range of people while sharing her journey and experiences, as well as to make us understand the essence of inclusion – at our core, we are all the same.
Daniel Winterfeldt
Samantha Renke, actress, is a highly respected, effective campaigner, role model and activist in the disability rights movement. She uses every opportunity available to raise awareness of the issues that she and many others face.
Berkeley Wilde
Sam is a powerful advocate for accessible homes for disabled people. Together with Housing Association Habinteg, and working alongside tenants and campaigners, Sam successfully raised the profile of this issue which helped lead to a new government consultation on accessible housing. By sharing her story with national decision-makers, the media and the general public, Sam has helped make change happen.
Nic Bungay
Sam has been a Metro.co.uk columnist for two years and in that time she has helped shape discussion about some of the most pressing issues disabled people are facing today. She is a true activist, constantly striving to make the world a better place. It’s a pleasure to be able to work alongside her.
Jess Austin
We had the pleasure of working with Sam during our #SmearForSmear campaign in 2020 and are lucky to have had her support since then. She was a dream to work with and generous in sharing her experiences in order to make other people feel less alone. Sam is such an engaging speaker, who immediately understood what our campaign needed and made our job of filming her really straight forward!
Sam’s appearance on Loose Women in support of #SmearForSmear was definitely one of the campaign’s highlights. She fully understood our messaging and the appearance did a great deal to raise awareness of smear tests and HPV. Sam is really reliable and has continued to lend her voice to our campaigns in creative and relatable ways.
Amy Reddington
Sam brings the house down. I’ve worked with her for more than two years on our own stage at RISE and now with our key clients in the fashion, tech and health sectors. Part teacher, part entertainer, she wins hearts and minds with every talk. Hire her, before I do again!
Ali Hanan
Samantha has been a columnist for PosAbility Magazine for over five years and her writing has always been exceptional. Her witty nature, her passion and her unique voice comes through in all her columns, she is unafraid of tackling difficult issues and highlighting important topics, and her work is always on time. It is a privilege to work with Samantha.
Rosalind Tulloch
Samanatha’s disability awareness training is extremely powerful and manages to cover so much ground in 3 hours – the medical and social models of disability, unconscious bias, ableism, language and practical advice. Her presentation style is warm and welcoming, but also powerfully honest. She includes effective exercise to facilitate great interaction and important self reflection. A truly transformative 3 hours which we recommend for absolutely everyone.
Yuliya Pankratova and Kirsty Nicol
Samantha’s session was brilliant. She is extremely engaging and brings lots of energy. I genuinely felt like I was in the room with her, rather than on Zoom. We learned lots and walked away with knowledge on how we can be better allies.